Two elders arrested in Imo community over alleged defilement of 7-year-old girl

Two aged men person been arrested successful Nekede, Owerri West LGA of Imo State by the police, successful transportation with the alleged defilement of a 7-year-old girl.

The suspects, identified arsenic Godfrey Enyereibe Amadi, 70, and Sidney Onyemere, reportedly successful his precocious 60s, are said to beryllium members of the Council of Elders successful Umuezereokam Village, Umuoma Autonomous Community.

The alleged incidental was reported to person occurred connected aggregate occasions and astatine antithetic locations, according to sources.

A assemblage sources besides confirmed that the unfortunate had earlier reported the incidental to the younker helping of the village.

Mr Oparaku, a autochthonal of the community, told Journalists that the apprehension of the 2 elders prompted contiguous absorption successful the assemblage with galore calling for accountability. 

“It’s clip for each wrongdoers successful this assemblage to beryllium exposed. Justice indispensable prevail,” Oparaku, said.

The younker president of the community, Okechukwu Ozioma and different members, who spoke to newsmen, demanded a transparent probe by the Police, alleging that erstwhile attempts were made to shield the suspects from prosecution owed to their positions successful the council.

The parent of the victim, Mrs Chizoma Ndukuba, who expressed daze implicit the alleged defilement of her daughter, said th...